President-elect Donald Trump on Thursday nominated Scott Pruitt, the attorney general of the oil and gas-intensive state of Oklahoma, to head the Environmental Protection Agency, a move signaling an assault on President Obama’s climate change and environmental legacy.
Pruitt has spent much of his energy as attorney general fighting the very...

Recent NGO commentary on palm oil company efforts to end deforestation and exploitation has been dispiriting. If we’re to achieve extraordinary and delightfully unexpected things like protecting people and forests, we need trust and understanding to emerge between NGOs and companies.
History suggests that that’s not impossible but if we’re...

Jakarta - Based on the results of ground checks it has conducted at a number of Asia Pulp and Paper (APP) pulpwood concessions, Indonesia’s Ministry of the Environment and Forestry has concluded that no peat restoration efforts across APP’s supply chain this year.
Instead, APP has been carrying out replanting practices in last...

Get the kids and leave home right now, Lieutenant Jason Stugelmeyer said when his wife answered the phone on Nov. 23.
For weeks, Stugelmeyer, an officer at the Bismarck Police Department, had watched demonstrators at Standing Rock using increasingly violent tactics as they protested the Dakota Access.
They’d roughed up private security...

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President-elect Donald Trump on Thursday nominated Scott Pruitt, the attorney general of the oil and gas-intensive state of Oklahoma, to head the Environmental Protection Agency, a move signaling an assault on President Obama’s climate change and environmental legacy.
Pruitt has spent much of his energy as attorney general fighting the very...

Recent NGO commentary on palm oil company efforts to end deforestation and exploitation has been dispiriting. If we’re to achieve extraordinary and delightfully unexpected things like protecting people and forests, we need trust and understanding to emerge between NGOs and companies.
History suggests that that’s not impossible but if we’re...

Jakarta - Based on the results of ground checks it has conducted at a number of Asia Pulp and Paper (APP) pulpwood concessions, Indonesia’s Ministry of the Environment and Forestry has concluded that no peat restoration efforts across APP’s supply chain this year.
Instead, APP has been carrying out replanting practices in last...